Report: Tizen flavored handsets from Samsung and DoCoMo to launch in 2013

0.phoneArena31 Dec 2012, 02:18posted on

Japan's largest carrier, DoCoMo, and Korean manufacturer Samsung are teaming up to offer handsets powered by the open source Tizen OS which will be released globally at the same time; DoCoMo is the only one of Japan's major carriers not to offer the Apple iPhone and is hoping that Tizen will prove to be a hit...

Except Tizen has the backing of carriers like Sprint in the U.S. so it will actually be given a chance. Also, I don't think Bada was open-source until recently. Also, Bada didn't have the backing of another big company like Intel. So, I think it has a pretty good shot at becoming a major player in the mobile OS world if the app development and hardware to back it up is there.

Bada was never a horrible idea...it was a good effort that didnt last but sooner or later that way is the future. Instead of relying on android or any othe third party OS the best result in tech is always obtained when the hardware and sotware are made by the same company. the optimization done in that case is perfect.

16.MeoCao (unregistered)

I agree, I wish Tizen well but I don't believe Tizen can compete with Android in 5 years. Google is much stronger in software than SS so SS must spend billions of dollars on Tizen for it to catch up (no guarrantee though) therefore frankly I'm skeptical about Tizen's future.

Opinions always change with time. More options will always be better for consumers so i would love to have more players in any segment so that none could take consumers for granted. I hate bthe notion of 3 or 4 companies controlling the world wide web, communications, telecom etc etc :)

Can you please read the "Fragmentation" clause in Licensing terms of Android SDK and explain what it actually means and why it was added recently? I mean the need for that clause from a byestander's point of view ... we don't see anything of that sort in LINUX world ... we are only presuming google is not evil. Perhaps this could be one of reasons why sammy is probing Tizen route :)

Google dropping support for EAS is one small step in taking customers for granted. Give them more market share and they will be next Apple ... deciding what works best for users under the garb of dropping support for proprietory protocols.

38.MeoCao (unregistered)

I don't think so, I support open and free software. If ActiveSync is free then Google was wrong to drop it. But ActiveSync is not free so people should pressure MS to drop the fees and not blame Google for some1 else's evil.

Do you know the installed userbase of Exchange or Exchange alternative solutions on Linux (Axigen/Scalix/Zimbra/Kerio/Zarafa/etc)?.

All those who work on Outlook and sharing will never give up these systems no matter what google preaches and coprorates value email communication and collaboration more than anything else. So many would be foreced to switch to Windows/iOS because both support Exchange active sync. I wouldn't care much if i cannot play angry birds on my phone but a phone which doesn't allow me to sync my exchange account is a useless device no matter if the os is free or not.

Please people research before you comment. Tizen, sailfish, meego, maemo = true opensource. Android = partially open source. Ios, wp = walled garden. I have three new phones to buy in 2013: tizen, jolla and bb10. Just keep prices below $500. There is a lil something for everybody in '13. Iphone5s, samsung gs4, sony xperia, etc

13.MeoCao (unregistered)

Because while Google puts up Android source codes and all for anyone to freely download and use, Android is not fully open source because in the end, only Google's software engineers directly contribute to Android itself.

Those other millions of devs that have added features using Google's code don't get their work added into the official Android.

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